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This is Government Attic's posting of a 1969 Library of Congress annotated bibliography, UFOs and Related Subjects, compiled by Lynn E. Catoe for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The Defense Technical Information Center released it under FOIA in November 2014. The bibliography lists more than 1,600 items and was requested to support the University of Colorado UFO study led by Edward U. Condon. Its preface concludes that no simple, single explanation of the UFO phenomenon applies to all cases.
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Edwards, Frank. Flying saucers, serious business. New York, Lyle Stuart, Inc. , 1966. 319 p. Report on worldwide sightings of UFOs and attack on"veil of secrecy" that governments of the world have drawn around the matter. Data cited authenticated by NICAP. Frank Edward~' report: Do you still believe in flying saucers? Fate, v. 13, .June 1960: 27-34. Author cites instances where military and scientific authorities attemited to discredit the subject of UFOs through ridicule. Frank Edwards' rt!port: is the UFO "curtain" lifting? Fate, v. 11, June 1958: 47-54. Cites instances of apparent suppression of UFO news by the Air Force and analyzes cunent official actions that seem to indicate it change in policy. Frank Edwards' report: some answers to the saucer. Fate, v. 11, July 1958: 45-51. Author outlines several IXlSSible reasons that the Air Force has remained silent on the question of the reality of UFO activity. He postulates that there is official recognition of the phenomenon although such recognition is denied JXIblicly. The plot to silence me. Fate, v. 10, June 1957: 17-23. Author claims that in August 1954 he was fired from his job as news com- mentator for the Mutual Broadcasting System because the president of the sponsoring organization (AFL) said he ''talked too much about flying saucers." He says he was later offered a well-paid job by the Pentagon "to silence him." The spies from outer space. Real, v. 5, Nov. 1954: 20-21, 58-60. Evidence is given by the author to support his belief that a ''blanket of silence" imposed by the Government is preventing the public from getting all the fact~ about unidentified flying objects. He also suggests that flying saucers are ex'£raterrestrial and engaged in reconnaissance activities. ' To see or not to see. In his My first 10, 000, 000 sponsors. New York, Ballantine Books, 1956. p. 110-125. Reports are given of UFO sightings 1947-1954 by apparently reliable witnesses, especially airlines pilots, and subsequent apparent "muzzling'' of witnesses and suppression of news stories ostensibly by a Government agency. 56
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.